Combined safety-razor and stropper.



W. S. TABB.

COMBINED SAFETY RAZOR AND STROPPER.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 21,1908.

902,625. Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

awumdot WILLIAM S. TABB, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED SAFETY-RAZOR AND STROPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' 1 Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application filed July 21, 1908. Serial No. 444,631.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. TABB, citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combined Safety-Razorsand Stroppers, of which the following is a specification.

- My invention relates to that class of razors known as safety razors,and the object of the invention is primarily to provide a razor with thenecessary and essential requisites for shaving and stropping the bladethrough the medium of a pair of holders and handle after firstwithdrawing the guard plates and reclamping the blade between theholders and handle.

A further object is to combine the ele ments so that they can be readilyand easily assembled for use or detached at will when necessary to stropthe razor.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novelconstruction and combination of parts as will be hereinafter more indetail described and the asserted novelty specifically claimed.

I have fully and clearly illustrated my invention in the'accompanyingdrawings in which Figure 1, represents my invention assembled ready foruse. Fig. 2, represents a side elevation of the handle and holdersshowing the latter in an open position for the assembling of the severalparts. Fig. 3, represents a plan view showing the holders and handle ina closed position. Fig. 4, represents a plan view of the fingered guardplate. Fig. 5, an edge view of the same, and Fig. 6, represents a planView of the razor cutting blade, and Fig. 7, a plan view of the upperguard plate.

Referring to the drawings A and A designate a pair of razor blade andguard plate holding bars. The bar A is stationary and rigidly secured toone, and the inner end of a handle B by means of rivets b, b, or othersuitable fastening means, said bar having screw threaded holes a, c inthe infler and free or outer ends thereof. A designates a movableholding bar which is pivotally and detachably secured at its rear end tothe rear end of the stationary holding bar A by means of a threaded setscrew C which is passed through correspondingly threaded holes a and a,formed in the movable and stationary bars A and A respectively, the setscrew C able bar.

bar A.

forming a fulcrum, for the action of the mov- The free end of themovable holding bar A is provided with a notch 1) within, which takes athreaded .set screw C passed through a correspondingly threaded hole ain the outer or free end of the D designates a rectangular lower guardplate having finger bars 05 formed 11 on its edges longitudinally, theends thereof being provided with lugs or flanges E, E, for a purposehereinafter explained, as clearly shown in Figs. 4 and 5 of thedrawings.

F, designates an upper guard plate having slots f, f, formed in its endswhich take the flanges E, E, of the guard plate D.

cgdesignates a double beveled edged razor blade having slots g, g,formed in its ends which is interposed between the upper and lower guardplates D and F, the slots g, 'g, in the ends of the blade being for thesame purpose as those in the plate F, i. a, allowing for the passagetherethrough of the flanges E, E, formed upon the ends of the guardplate G which retains the plate F and blade G snugly in place whileshaving.

stationary From the foregoing description taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the operation of'my razor will be obvious, butmay be briefly rehearsed as follows In assembling the parts the operatorlocates the razor blade upon the upper surface of the lower guard plateand in turn locates the upper guard plate upon the razor blade, saidblade being interposed between the two, the flanges upon the ends of thelower guard plate retaining the several parts of the razor firmly inplace. It is then clam ed between the holding bars for shaving. whenthrough shaving and when desiring to strop it, places the razor betweenthe clamp ing or holding bars and strops the same by grasping the handlethereof and stropping in the usual manner. Y

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is 2- The combination with a pair of razorholding bars, the lower of which being rigidly secured to the razorhandle and having a screw threaded hole formed in the inner and free endthereof, an n per removable bar having a screw threade hole in rear endwhich alines with the one in the rear end of the he 0 erator set screwsada ted to unite pivotally and detachably said ars, v the set screw inthe free end of the fixed bar being adapted to take in the notch in thefree end of the movable .bar and secure the bars together, of a lowerguard plate having a series of fingers formed upon the edges thereof andprovided at its ends with vertical flanges, a razor blade having bevelededges and slotted ends, said slotted ends being adapted to receive theflanges of the fingered guard plate and an upper guard late having slotsin its ends also adapte to receive the vertical flanges on the end ofthe lower guard plate all constructed, arranged and 0 cratingsubstantially as 1-5 shown and descri ed.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM S. TALBB. Witnesses:

RAPHAEL JACOBSON, CLARENCE B. HOUSTON.

